'?IN-TAILED GROUSE, 
BuiFon, In his account of this bird, thus 
animadverts on what has fallen from Edwards 
— " This author," says he, " tells us, that 
Dr. Shaw names it Kittawiah, and that he 
only gives three toes to each foot ; but he ai- 
Icdges, that the traveller has committed this 
oversight, in not attending to the hind toe, 
which is liid under the plumage of the legs. 
Yet he had a little before mentioned, and V7e 
readily perceive it from llie hgure, that the 
fore-part only of the leg is covered with wliite 
feathers like hairs ; and it is difficult to con- 
ceive, how the hind toe could be concealed 
under the anterior plumage. It would be 
more natural to sav, that it escaped Dr. Shaw's 
observation by it's diminutive size; for it is 
only two lines long. The two lateral toes are 
also very short, compared wdtli the mdddle one; 
and, in tliem. all, the edges are m.arked with 
6m;ill iiidentioes, as iil the Common GrousCo 
This species," BufFon remarks, *'is found 
in most of the warm countries in the ancient 
r.-jiuincnt : in Spain, in the South of France, 
: i:,aly5 in Syria, in Turkey and Arabia, in 
h tV'^^rj. d.nd even at Senegal: for the bird 
